Lawyer

Chapter 84
When Fang Yi found the child, the child was undergoing an examination. He was sitting outside the door, and his wife was inside with the child.

"Fang Yi, I'm really bothering you today!" Shengzi said with red eyes and tired face.

"What are you talking about? They are all from the same village. That's nothing. How is the child?" Fang Yi asked.

Although the child in front of him is only one year younger than Fang Yi, the hardships of life make him look like a man in his fifties.

His hair is disheveled, like wormwood in autumn, his face is covered with fine wrinkles, his skin is like dead bark, which has long lost its luster, and his big hands are full of calluses.There is still a bit of a man in his 30s.

Before the child could speak, he let out a long sigh: "The doctor in the county said it can't be cured, so let's come to the city to have a look..."

At this point, a doctor came out and called the child in.Fang Yi sat down on the bench by the door and waited.

About half an hour later, Shengzi walked out holding the child with a blank expression, followed by the scrawny Shengzi's daughter-in-law who kept wiping away tears.

After the daughter-in-law sat down, she took the baby from the hands of the birth son, holding her son and trying not to cry, but the tears fell like broken beads on the floor of the hospital corridor.

A few minutes later, a male doctor came out and came to the child: "Don't think about it, the operation fee is only [-] yuan. [-] yuan can save the child's life."

The son was silent for a moment and then said: "Doctor, we are dead. We treated the child before, and the family can't get rid of it. We owe a lot of famine. This [-] yuan...we might as well have another one."

After hearing the words of giving birth, the daughter-in-law could no longer restrain the grief in her heart, and burst into tears. The crying made people feel heartbroken.

Fang Yi felt uncomfortable, the doctor sighed, turned and left silently.

"Having a baby, why don't you find a solution with the village chief? The baby must die!" Fang Yi advised.

"What else can I do? I borrow everything that the village can borrow. I only earn two to three thousand yuan a year working in the field from start to finish, and now I still owe the village more than 3000 yuan. I really have no choice..." Shengzi As he spoke, he squatted down, put his head in his hands and began to cry.

Fang Yi was also silent. He did have some money. The 5 yuan given by Sister Lan and his wife was still lying in the bank account. If it is scraped, you have to save some living expenses, which is called doing what you can.

Fang Yi sent his son's family of three back home. When he got home, it was past two o'clock in the morning. He was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep. He felt that he had to do something.

Early the next morning, Fang Yi told his father about the childbirth.

"Dad, I want to give fifty thousand to the child's family to help him in an emergency." Fang Yi said after washing his face with a towel in his hand.

Fang Yi understands that it is said to be [-] yuan for the childbirth, but it is almost the same as a donation. Given the current situation of the childbirth family, there is no time to pay back the money.

He grew up in the village, and the older generation in the village often said: windfall wealth, you can't keep it, if you keep it, it will cause disaster.It means that the unexpected windfall cannot be kept in one's hands all the time, but should be spread out to avoid disaster.

The 5 yuan was not earned by Fang Yi by virtue of his ability, it was considered a small windfall, if he took it all out at once, it would be a lie if he said he didn’t feel sad, but if he held on to Fang Yi and worried that something would happen sooner or later, this time Taking out the money and using it for the childbearing family can be regarded as accumulating some evil virtues for oneself.

After Fang Yi finished speaking, Fang Youcai took out a pipe of shredded tobacco from a big pipe without making a sound, and squatted under the eaves to smoke it.

After taking three or four puffs, Fang Youcai said calmly: "I don't object to you giving birth money, after all, saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, which is a good thing to accumulate virtue.

If it's a few hundred yuan, or even 1000 yuan, I won't say anything, I support you in doing so.But if you take [-] at once, you have to think clearly. "

"Why?" Fang Yi asked puzzled.

Whether it's one hundred or fifty thousand, isn't it life-saving money?What's the difference?Fang Yi couldn't figure it out.

"The family who gave birth to a child is poor, and there have been many famines caused by the medical treatment for the child. Paying back the money must not even be considered. The money is basically wasted when it goes out, and everyone in the village knows it.

If you take out so much money at once, what will others think? Some of the relatives of the birth family have better living conditions than our family, and our family is not related to the birth family. Why can't relatives come down to Taiwan?

Everyone in the village wants to show face, even if you don't say it to your face, you will definitely scold you behind your back for being pushy, coercing everyone to pay out, and offending people for no reason.We can't do things that don't pay well. "Fang Youcai took two more puffs of dry tobacco and said.

After a moment of silence, Fang Yi said, "Well, I see."

After eating in the morning, before Fang Yi went out, Fang Mao came to find him. After asking about yesterday's visit to the hospital, he was also silent when he heard that the child was about to give up treatment for the child.

"How about this, I'll call on everyone in the village to donate some money, and then apply to the village to see if they can give some subsidies, that's the only way to go." Fang Mao said helplessly.

After Fang Yi heard it, he immediately expressed his willingness to donate five hundred.

Fang took off, and the loudspeaker at the head of the village rang the donation proposal at noon, and Fang Yi went to the village committee to donate.In the evening, Fang Yi went to Fang Mao again and asked about the donation, Fang Mao only replied a drop in the bucket.

After dinner, Fang Yi went to Shengzi's house, stood at the gate of Shengzi's courtyard, saw the courtyard was pitch black, and the room was lit with dim lights.

Fang Yi called "Birth" and walked in.The son opened the door and saw Fang Yi, and let him in.The house is made of earthen walls, and the corners are made of stone.

There was nothing in the room except a leather-covered wooden table and two dark wooden stools whose legs were twisted with iron wires. The smell is very bad.Under the dim light, the family looked even more impoverished.

The daughter-in-law who gave birth in the house sat on the kang with the child in her arms and shed tears, her voice was already hoarse from crying, and the child seemed to have fallen asleep in her arms.

There was half a bowl of cold porridge on the wooden table. The son pulled a wooden stool and handed it to Fang Yi: "Brother Yi, thank you for taking us to the hospital."

Fang Yi sighed: "They are all from the same village, don't talk about these things. How is the child?"

"I just took the medicine, and I can only maintain it. Let's count it as a day." Shengzi said weakly.

Fang Yi glanced at the daughter-in-law who was sitting on the kang holding the child in a daze, afraid of waking the child, said in a low voice: "Let's talk outside."

The son nodded, picked up the old padded jacket, and followed Fang Yi out the door.The yard was very dark, so Fang Yi had no choice but to go out the gate and walk under the street lamp outside the yard, waiting to give birth.

"Brother Yi, what's the matter?" Shengzi squatted under the streetlight with his head drooping, asking, as if his spine had been pulled out.

(End of this chapter)